Car-registering device



Jan. 29 1924.

W. D. BURNON GAR BEGISTERING DEVICE Filed Aug. 23. 1921 3 Sheets-Sheet, 1

E: D. B2107 INVENTOR ATTORNEY WITNESS:

Jan. 29 1924.

W. D. BURNON CAR REGISTERING DEVICE s Shets-Sheet 2 Filed Aug. 23. 1921 mma ,W D. Furnow- ATTORNEY WITNESS:

Jan; 29 1924. 1,481,954

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UNITED STATES 1,481,954 PATENT OFFICE.

WILL DEAN BURNON, OF SPENCER, NORTH CAROLINA, ASSIGNOR F ONE-HALF TO RICHARD P. CARTER, 0F SPENCER, NORTH CAROLINA.

CAR-REGISTERING DEVICE.

Application filed August 23, 1921.

To all /20/11 it may concern:

Be it known that I, l/VILL D. BURNON, a citizen of the United States, residin at Spencer, in the county of Rowan and tate of North Carolina, have invented new and useful Improvements in Car-Registering Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a registering and recording device, the general object of the invention being to make a record of persons entering and leaving a place or building so that it will be a simple matter to tell at any time the number of persons entering and leaving;

\Vhile the invention is mainly designed for cars, such as street cars and railroad cars it can be used for keeping records of persons entering and leaving moving picture places, baseball parks, dancing pavilions, boats and any place where a charge is made to enter and it is desired to have a record of the persons entering and leaving. It can also be used in factories and the like.

In this application the parts are described and shown as applied to a car, though as before stated, the invention is not to be limited to such use.

Another object of the invention is to provide means whereby a printed record is made of the persons boarding and leaving the car in addition to recorders which re: cord the number of persons boarding the car and the number of persons leaving the car.

A further object of the invention is to provide means for indicating on the printed record the stops which the car makes, the parts being so arranged thatthe number of persons boarding the car and leaving the car will be recorded on the strip between each pair of stop indicating records.

A still further object of the invention is to provide means for feeding the record strip by the operation of the recording mechanism and to provide means for holding the strip against movement when the car is moving.

Another object of the invention is to pro- 'vide movable steps for actuating the recording mechanisms by the persons boarding or leaving the car.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the Serial No. 494,686.

combination and arrangement of the several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In describing my invention in detail,

reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which Figure l is a diagrammatic sectional view through a car showing my invention in use.

Figure 2 is a view of the casing containing the recording means and the means for transmitting the movement of the steps thereto.

Figures 3 and 4 are detail views of the door operated means for indicating the ing mechanism to the recording mechanism.

Figure 12 is a fragmentary view of the tape showing the record printed thereon.

leis shown in Figure 1 I make the steps 1 of the car vertically movable, the steps being normally held in raised position by the springs 2. Each step carries a rack'bar 3 which engages a sprocket 4 on the shaft 5, each shaft having drum 6 thereon to which is secured cable 7. These cables pass upwardly over guiding pulleys 8 and the cables which are connected with the bottom steps are connected with the lever 9 and those connected with the upper steps are connected with the lever 10. These two levers are pivotedintermediate their ends and are provided with aroshaped rack parts 11 which engage sprockets 12. One of these sprockets 12 is located on a shaft 13 and the other one is located on a shaft 14. These -s 1 and 1 and a third shaft 15 extend longitudinally of the car and are rockingly supported. Shaft 15; is adaptedto beinoved by the movement of the doors 16 of the car. These doors are provided with plates 1"? which are adapted to strike the lovers 1% which are pivoted intermediate their ends and are connected by links 19 with the lever 20 which is connected intermediate its end to the shaft 1-5. Thus when the doors are opened the plate '17 will strike lever 18 so .as to rock shaft 15 and these parts will re main in this position until the doors are closed again.

Suitably arranged in thecar, preferably at one end thereof, is a casing- 21 which is provided with a reduced.lower nart 22. The

crank ends 01 shafts 2,3, 2ft and 25 which are journaledin said casing-project therefrom and these cranked ends are connected with cranks 26 on the longitudinally extending shafts by thelinks-Q? so that the,

rocking moven'ients of these long dinally extending shafts will be communicated to th e crank shafts.

A roll, ot tape 28 is rotatably i'nonnted between the supports, 29 in the casing: and this tape is adapted to pass between the sup ports 30 to a pair of feeding rollers 31 into the extension 2520f thecasingr. Suitable guiding rollers 32 are provided for thetape. The upp r feeding roller 31 has a ratchet wheel 33 connected therewith and a dog 34 tor.;.ngaging saidratchet wheel is carried by a lever 35 which is pivotally mounted at one end toe support 36 in the casing. A link 37 connects this lever with a bell cranklever 38 which in turn connected by link 39 with the cranked end ot shaft 4:0

which is connected with crank .shatt23 by the beveled gears 41. llhus the movement ot crank shaft 23 will be corninuni rated to the teed rollers so nsito cause said rollers to feed the tape from the roller into the extension.

A block 42 carrying a printing matrix 4:3 for printing upon the tape is movably mounted upon a slide set which is movable upon the guide rods 1-5. The slide M is mounted to have movement transversely over the tape while the block 42 is adapted to have movement towards end from the tape through theslide, the block being normallyheld outofengagement with the tape by means of the springs 4-6 mounted on the guiding studs 47 carried by the slide and engagged by the block. ihus bv mOVlllg the slide 44 upon thegnide rods 45 the character on the block can be v printed either at one side or the other of the tape and by press ing upon the block the character can he brought into engagement with the tape.

The means for moving theslide let upon the guide rods 45 consists of the lint 43 connects the slide with the cranked ofshattfttl, Thus then oven entiot shaitt e0 wilt adjust the slide with the pr illgflllzttl'iX and will also feed the tape forwere. i i

The means for pressing the block upon the tape comprises a shntt 49 rockingly mounted in the casing and having a crank part 50 for engaging a groove 51 in the outer face 0]". the block so as to force the block inwardly to press the type against the tape. The shaft 49 is rocked from shaft 24 by means of the link 51 engaging the cranked ends of said shafts .24: and l't).

I provide apeir of registers 53, one for! registering the persons leaving the car and the other lor registering the persons hoarding the car. Theseregist ers are actuated by the movement of shaft 49in the reinsing manner:A pair oflevers 5e are rockingly supported from the supports 30 and the upper ends otth ese levers are connectedby the links 55 with the actuating levers 56 ot' the'registersl The lower ends of the levers are connected by the links 57 connecting eyes ot the links 57 with links so thatthe links 58 can he swung from one side to" the other so that their hooked ends 58 will passlnnder one endor the other of the crank' 50 of shett 49 so that the inward movement ottlhe crank 50' will strike one of these hooked ends and, thus n ove one pair of links 57 andj of-llongitiidinally to rock the lever 5 L to which the pair is connected and thus operate one of the registers 53. It willbe seen that only th at register will be actuated. the hooked link 58 of which is I engaged by the crankSO or the shaft 49; the

parts connected with theother registerreinainingf idle. The hooked links are swung from one position to the other by the noveinent of the slidelt as the end of the ineinher 61 connected with tl e sli de, as shown at 63. in Figure The crank shaft 25, actuated by the opening ot the door} is connected w. h a block 16 4: which carries a printing nzitrix for printing the AVOlfl stop upon the tiipe;thishlock 6 heinp' slidably mounted between the slipports 30 and the parts are normally held with the block in its lowest posi ion by nieans of "spring; 65 which is c v noted with the shaft ,T his block not oiilyf acts to print theword stopvnpon the tape, as 12 but the tape es long asthe doors are fclosed. As soon as the doors are opened the block is raised off the tape so as to permit the tape to move when a person starts to board or leave the car.

From the above it will be apparent that when a person starts to enter the car and places his foot on one of the lower steps his weight lowering the step will cause shaft 13 to be rocked and this rocking movement of shaft 13 will rock shaft through the connections shown and this movement of shaft 40 will actuate the feed rollers 31 to cause them to feed the tape from the roll and this movement of shaft 40 will also be transmitted to the slide 4 k to adjust the printing block 42 to one side of the tape. \Vhen the person places his other foot upon the next step he actuates shaft .14 and the movement of this shaft will cause the shaft 49 to rotate so that its crank 50 will strike the block and force the type character thereon against the tape, thus printing a mark on the tape to indicate that a person has entered the car. The movement of slide 44 will have swung the member 61 to place the forked ends of one of the links 58 under the crank 50 so that when the said crank is lowered the link 58 will be moved longitudinally to actuate the reigter for indicating that a person has entered the car. Thus a printed record is made of the persons entering the car and the register also registers the number of persons leaving. As soon as the steps are free of the weight of the person the parts will return to normal position by means of the springs connected with the crank shafts.

If a person should leave the car his weight would first come on the upper step so as to rotate shaft 14. Thus the crank 50 would be pressed against the block before the same had been shifted by its slide so that the mark would be made on the tape at the opposite side from that made by a person entering the car and the second register would be actuated as the second hooked link 58 would be engaged by the crank Then when his weight came on the second step the block would be shifted but no results would come from this as the block would be in raised position and off of the tape. Then when the doors are closed the block 64 would be pressed against the tape to print the word stop thereon and to hold the tape against forwardmovement until the door is again opened. Thus the marks indicating that the persons entering and leaving the car at one stop would appear on the tape between a pair of printed words stop, so that the persons leaving and entering the car at each stop can be readily seen. For instance, Figure 12 shows that three persons entered the car and four left at the first stop and that four entered and five left at the second stop.

By my invention it will be seen that the car company will have a duplicate record of the persons entering and leaving the car, one record appearing upon the printed strip and the other in the register.

It is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages and novel features of my invention will be readily apparent.

I desire it to be understood that I may make changes in the construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, provided that such changes fall within the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim is 1. In combination with a vehicle having vertically movable steps, a casing carried by the vehicle, tape supporting means in said casing, tape feeding means, a type carrying block, a slide in which the block is movably mounted, connections for causing the movement of the first step to move the slide and actuate the feeding means, a crank shaft for forcing the block upon the tape. connections from the second step for rocking said shaft when the step is moved, a pair of registers, actuatin means for the same including a pair of liooked links, the hooked ends of which are adapted to be engaged by the crank shaft and means connected with the slide for placing the hook of one or the other link under the crank.

2. In combination with a vehicle having vertically movable steps, a casing carried by the vehicle, tape supporting means in said casing, tape feeding means, a type carrying block, a slide in which the block is movably mounted, connections for causing the movement of the first step to move the slide and actuate the feeding means, a crank shaft for forcing the block upon the tape, connections from the second step for rocking said shaft when the step is moved, a pair of registers, actuating means for the same including a pair of hooked links, the hooked ends of which are adapted to be engaged by the crank shaft and means connected with the slide for placing the hook of one or the other link under the crank, a movable block having type characters thereon indicating stop, spring means for holding the said block upon the tape, means for lifting the block off the tape including a rock shaft and means for rocking said shaft by the opening of a door of the vehicle.

3. In combination with a car having vertically'movable steps. spring means for normally holding the steps in raised position. a pair of rock shafts in the car, means for connecting the same with the steps, a third rock shaft in the car, means for rocking the same when the car door is op ned, a casing. three crank shafts journaled therein and having their cranked ends projecting therefrom, means for connecting said ends with the three shafts, means for supporting a roll of ta-p iin ,said ca ing, tap fee ing m ws in ,saad g, mews for ac uatmg th same from one o fthe omnlpshafts, guide rods lo- ,GELDQ'CLHJQOVG the path of theo t ape, .slldes e111)- ported on said-yods, ahlgok l novagbly mounted in said {guide and qgwrying e Lype ohmaoter, means for moving the .glicle on jqhe rods by the movement of the cu- 111k shaft 111st mentiqned, a crank vsl e-fjc inihe casing having a spanked part forenga ging [the block to force the sam g ns ith t pe means for momng szud clyank shaft by one of the remainigig two of the thxgeecrenk Sha'fitS e mov- ,mam

:ablebloek cu rying e type 1"(u 1rinting the word sm-p upon idle tape, sprmg meams vfor normally holding it'he Same upon ithe t wtedyby the slide fol plaoing one or the other lofxtle {hooks of the links under the Intestimony whereof I o-fiix my signature.

WI {DEAN BURNON. 

